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The drawings of this thematically defined cycle actualize the author’s research into the question of individuality even at the earliest period of life, when most of the essential individual facial traits have already acquired the so-called infantile aesthetic-bionic characteristics through special facial morphology. Such characteristics are universal not only in humans, but also other mammals. These biological features of childhood later serve to mask certain actions, to conceal them in the subsequent process of growing up. With some people, however, their visual semantics never recede, even in the latter parts of life. It is interesting to note that twenty years after Nikola’s first presentation of these works in 1995, several serious projects around the same topic have been realized as urban installations (Appendix 1) in 2015.